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1. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn | |
Paperback: 226
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(1996-12-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is indeed aparadigmatic work in the history of science. Kuhn's use of terms suchas "paradigm shift" and "normal science," his ideas of how scientistsmove from disdain through doubt to acceptance of a new theory, hisstress on social and psychological factors in science--all have hadprofound effects on historians, scientists, philosophers, critics,writers, business gurus, and even the cartoonist in the street. Some scientists (such as Steven Weinberg and Ernst Mayr) areprofoundly irritated by Kuhn, especially by the doubts he casts--orthe wayhis work has been used to cast doubt--on the idea ofscientific progress. Yet it has been said that the acceptance of platetectonics in the 1960s, for instance, was sped by geologists'reluctance to be on the downside of a paradigm shift. Even Weinberghas said that "Structure has had a wider influence than anyother book on the history of science." As one of Kuhn's obituariesnoted, "We all live in a post-Kuhnian age." --Mary Ellen Curtin Customer Reviews (144)
Oldie by Goodie
Big History
Must-read for anyone interested in science.
My Favorite Book!!!
Inescapable for philosophers of science... |
2. The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions - Second Edition, Enlarged by Thomas S. Kuhn | |
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(1990)
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3. The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview by Thomas S. Kuhn | |
Paperback: 336
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(2002-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description In keeping with Kuhn's wishes (he died in 1996), editors James Conant and John Haugeland organized The Road Since Structure to include 11 philosophical essays written since 1970. In the first part of the book, Kuhn spells out his theory as it developed in the 1980s and 1990s; in the second part, he replies to a number of criticisms and misreadings. The third section is a fascinating interview with Kuhn conducted less than a year before he died. For general interest readers, the lengthy interview--in which Kuhn candidly and engagingly discusses the trials and tribulations of his life and philosophical career--will probably be the most interesting part of the book. For those attuned to Kuhn's controversial work, The Road Since Structure is an indispensable aid for understanding his theory as it developed and for appreciating the full force of his replies to a host of critical objections. As always, Kuhn's clarity and fluid prose render accessible a field fraught with opaque writing. --Eric de Place Customer Reviews (7)
Khun on Khun
Incommensurability
Kuhn's missing link
Good Collection
Did Kuhn ever recover from 'Structure'? First, as anyone who's read "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" knows, Kuhn has no talent for clear writing. Nothing's changed since. These essays, although more concise and to the point (perhaps that's Kuhn having learned his lesson) are still difficult reads. The first section, I think, is the book's 'payoff'. It is here that he reiterates, clarifies and expands on what is and is not scientific revolution, incommensurability and paradigm. Two essays in particular, "What are Scientific Revolutions?" and "The Road Since Structure" are worth the price of the book alone. The second section consists of replies to Kuhns many and in an ideological sense, far ranging critics. Most of these papers were written for symposia and are difficult in the sense of listening to only one end of a phone dialogue. As he is generally responding to papers of others, without access to those papers, it is akward reading to say the least. Still, for those of us scientific philosophy nuts, the essays "Reflections on My Critics" (part of a symposium featuring Lakatos, Popper and Feyerabend amongst others) and "The Natural and the Human Sciences" are excellent illucidations of Kuhns thought. Honestly, the interview, I didn't like. Much of it is Thomas Kuhns history and as for the reviewer below that bemoans a self-absorbed Kuhn talking about himself and his "intellectual project", I'm not sure what else you should expect from an interview of a philosopher. Interviewers like to ask about the interviewee and philosopher's like to talk about what they work on. Honestly though, if you are at all familiar with Kuhns life, this interview offers little that you didn't already know. ... Read more |
4. Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 by Thomas S. Kuhn | |
Paperback: 398
Pages
(1987-01-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Every scientist should have this book."--Paul Davies, New Scientist Customer Reviews (3)
An extremely challenging book
All you wanted to know about q.m. but were afraid to ask
How the Quantum came to be |
5. The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change by Thomas S. Kuhn | |
Paperback: 366
Pages
(1977-12-31)
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Wonderful digestible essays on Scientific History and Philosophy
Not much new since Structure
Science's Greatest Historian
A comment on Magellan's comments
Another beautiful mind |
6. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought by Thomas S. Kuhn | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(1992-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes. Understanding the processes which underlay the Revolution gives us a perspective, in this scientific age, from which to evaluate our own beliefs more intelligently. With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical, philosophical, and humanistic elements, Mr. Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man's concept of his relation to the universe and to God. The book begins with a description of the first scientific cosmology developed by the Greeks. Mr. Kuhn thus prepares the way for a continuing analysis of the relation between theory and observation and belief. He describes the many functions--astronomical, scientific, and nonscientific--of the Greek concept of the universe, concentrating especially on the religious implications. He then treats the intellectual, social, and economic developments which nurtured Copernicus' break with traditional astronomy. Although many of these developments, including scholastic criticism of Aristotle's theory of motion and the Renaissance revival of Neoplatonism, lie entirely outside of astronomy, they increased the flexibility of the astronomer's imagination. That new flexibility is apparent in the work of Copernicus, whose DE REVOLUTIONIBUS ORBIUM CAELESTIUM is discussed in detail both for its own significance and as a representative scientific innovation. With a final analysis of Copernicus' life work--its reception and its contribution to a new scientific concept of the universe--Mr. Kuhn illuminates both the researches that finally made the heliocentric arrangement work, and the achievements in physics and metaphysics that made the planetary earth an integral part of Newtonian science. These are the developments that once again provided man with a coherent and self-consistent conception of the universe and of his own place in it. This is a book for any reader interested in the evolution of ideas and, in particular, in the curious interplay of hypothesis and experiment which is the essence of modern science. Says James Bryant Conant in his Foreword: "Professor Kuhn's handling of the subject merits attention, for... he points the way to the road which must be followed if science is to be assimilated into the culture of our times." Customer Reviews (18)
Great Job!
Book disintegrates
The Copernican Revolution
Excellent
a wonderful trip trough the sky |
7. Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science by Paul Hoyningen-Huene | |
Paperback: 330
Pages
(1993-05-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Discussing the concepts of paradigms, paradigm shifts, normal science, and scientific revolutions, Hoyningen-Huene traces their evolution to Kuhn's experience as a historian of contemporary science.From here, Hoyningen-Huene examines Kuhn's well-known thesis that scientists on opposite sides of a revolutionary divide "work in different worlds," explaining Kuhn's notion of a world-change during a scientific revolution.He even considers Kuhn's most controversial claims--his attack on the distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification and his notion of incommensurability--addressing both criticisms and defenses of these ideas. Destined to become the authoritative philosophical study of Kuhn's work, Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions both enriches our understanding of Kuhn and provides powerful interpretive tools for bridging Continental and Anglo-American philosophical traditions. Customer Reviews (2)
Good account of Kuhn's "SSR"
Excellent analysis of the difficult details ofKuhn's work. |
8. The Tiger and the Shark: Empirical Roots of Wave-Particle Dualism by Bruce R. Wheaton | |
Paperback: 380
Pages
(1991-07-26)
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9. Que Son Las Revoluciones Cientificas (Spanish Edition) by Thomas S. Kuhn | |
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(1992-12)
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10. Die Entstehung des Neuen. Studien zur Struktur der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. by Thomas S. Kuhn, Lorenz. Krüger | |
Paperback: 473
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(1997-01-01)
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11. Wissenschaftstheorie in der Ethnologie: Zur Kritik u. Weiterfuhrung d. Theorie von Thomas S. Kuhn anhand ethnograph. Materials (Mainzer Ethnologica) (German Edition) by Signe Seiler | |
Paperback: 237
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(1980)
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12. Hochschullehrer (Berkeley, Kalifornien): Paul Feyerabend, Thomas S. Kuhn, Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Richard Dawkins, John Ousterhout (German Edition) | |
Paperback: 702
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(2010-10-18)
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13. Paradigmenwechsel und "Anything goes". Die Wissenschaftsauffassung Thomas S. Kuhns in der Kritik Paul K. Feyerabends (German Edition) by Christian Schwießelmann | |
Paperback: 40
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(2007-09-12)
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14. Kant und die These vom Paradigmenwechsel: Eine Gegenuberstellung seiner Transzendentalphilosophie mit der Wissenschaftstheorie Thomas S. Kuhns (European ... Series XX, Philosophy) (German Edition) by Josef Quitterer | |
Perfect Paperback: 187
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(1996)
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15. Die Wissenschaftsphilosophie Thomas S. Kuhns: Rekonstruktion und Grundlagenprobleme (Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaft und Philosophie) (German Edition) by Paul Hoyningen-Huene | |
Turtleback: 288
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(1989)
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16. La estructura de las Revoluciones Cientificas (Breviarios) (Spanish Edition) by Kuhn; Thomas S. | |
Paperback: 361
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(2006-05-16)
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Excelente libro, terrible traducción |
17. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Volume II, Number 2 by Thomas S. Kuhn | |
Paperback:
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(1971)
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18. (THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS) BY KUHN, THOMAS S.[AUTHOR]Paperback{The Structure of Scientific Revolutions} on 1996 | |
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19. Biography - Kuhn, Thomas S(amuel) (1922-1996): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team | |
Digital: 5
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(2002-01-01)
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20. El camino desde la estructura: Ensayos filosoficos 1970-1993 con una entrevista autobiografica (Spanish Edition) by Thomas S. Kuhn | |
Paperback: 386
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(2002-01)
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